Community July 14, 2011
Black Nurses Association honors two YNHH nurses
At its recent annual luncheon, the Southern Connecticut Black Nurses Association honored two Yale-New Haven Hospital nurses. Genice Nelson, left, APRN, MSN, nurse practitioner in the Adult Sickle Cell Program in Community Health, received the Alvin Johnson Scholarship, named for the hospital’s former vice president of Human Resources. Nelson is attending University of Connecticut School of Nursing to earn her doctorate of nursing practice. Pauline Obura-Wilkes, RN, assistant patient service manager, Short-Stay Unit, received the association’s Nursing Leadership Award. She is a co-founder of a non-profit organization that educates and empowers orphaned children and widowed women with AIDs in her native Kisumu, Kenya. She is pursuing her RN-MSN degree at Sacred Heart University.
